Clustered blind beamforming from ad-hoc microphone arrays

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 661-676

  Himawan, Ivan ^a   McCowan, Iain ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; speech enhancement; speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ARRAY GEOMETRIES; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLIND BEAMFORMING; GEOMETRICAL INFORMATIONS; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RELATIVE DISTANCES; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; SOURCE LOCATION; SPATIAL COHERENCE;

BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79951593950     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2055560     Document Type: Article

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